Finally had time to figure out blender so i could have a great passenger

also got a custom tachometer working

(game is assetto corsa)

Part 4 of the collab story. Mikari feels a little “inadequate” and then they run into Cowpens

Working overtime again, are you? As your care provider, I'm responsible for your health. Would you mind coming in and staying for some tests? You'll be in capable hands.
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Source to floof wife

Howdy! AO3 is back up and chapter 65 is posted for your enjoyment. It is a bit spicy, but does progress things slightly as well as offsetting the grimdark nature of the last two chapters. Enjoy while you can, it's going to get darker as time goes on. Thank you all for sticking with me and enjoying my work. It means the world to me.

Commander, go ahead and describe your symptoms for me, if you would. It's okay, I'll examine you thoroughly. Nothing about you will escape my notice.

USS New Orleans is changing into her new Dynamic attire. She will grace your dock in the near future, Commander.
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Welcome back to my fan character concept series. As always, I can't really think of any gameplay ideas for this series, so feel free to suggest some ideas in the comments. And you can leave some suggestions in the comments for what ship I could do next as well. In today's episode, we have the German merchant that became a British escort carrier, Audacity.

History: HMS Audacity began life as the Hannover, a cargo liner operated by Norddeutscher Lloyd. She was launched on March 29th, 1939, at Bremer Vulkan AG in Bremen (which was also her port of registry). Her main role was transporting bananas between the West Indies and Germany itself. When WWII began in September of that year, she sought out Curaçao for refuge. But in March 1940, she made an attempt as a blockade runner in order to return to Germany. But the light cruiser Dunedin & the Canadian destroyer Assiniboine sighted her between Puerto Rico and Hispaniola. Ordered to stop, Hannover ignored it and made a break for the Dominican Republic’s neutral waters. But Dunedin & Assiniboine intercepted, and Hannover’s captain ordered to open the seacocks & set the ship alight. A boarding party from Dunedin closed the seacocks, but salvage crews took 4 days to extinguish the fire. Now under tow, Hannover was moved to Jamaica and once arriving there, she was renamed to Sinbad. With her port of registry changed to Kingston and placed under the British flag. This would not last long though, as Sinbad would be renamed again to Empire Audacity and became an Ocean Boarding Vessel for the Ministry of War Transport on November 11th. Another port of registry change, this time to London, and placed under Cunard management. She arrived at Blyth on January 22nd, 1941, for conversion into an escort carrier. This was to protect shipping in the mid Atlantic from U-Boat attacks due to lack of Allied air cover. Commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Empire Audacity on June 17th, 1941, and would carry Grumman Martlets (the UK designation for the F4F Wildcat) of 802 Naval Air Squadron. Due to the hasty conversion process that resulted in a lack of hanger, all of her aircraft would be carried on the flight deck. Her name would be changed for the final time on July 31st, as the Empire part of her name was dropped because the Admiralty disliked the merchant name. Now simply HMS Audacity, she would move to be part of support of convoys bound for Gibraltar. With her only preserved threat being the Fw 200 Condor bomber/recon aircraft. Audacity would partake in 4 convoy escort details. Her first, OG 74, would see one of her aircraft shoot down a Condor after it had bombed the rescue ship Walmer Castle (which later sank with the aid of gunfire from a corvette that was part of the convoy due to severe damage). The next, HG 74, was uneventful. The third, OG 76, saw her Martlets shoot down four Fw 200s and one being the first of many victories for pilot Eric “Winkle” Brown. The fourth and final, HG 76, saw Audacity have only 4 Martlets serviceable for this mission. Two Fw 200s were shot down, and one of these Martlets spotted the Type IXC U-Boat, U-131. However, U-131 managed to shoot down a Martlet in return. But due to the attack, she couldn’t dive and was forced to be scuttled, with U-131’s crew being taken prisoner. Leaving the convoy on December 21st, a flare fired by one of the merchant ships revealed her silhouette to U-Boats in the area. One of these was the Type VIIC U-Boat, U-751, who fired 3 torpedoes at Audacity. The first hit Audacity in the engine room, which caused her to begin to settle by the stern. Torpedoes 2 & 3 caused an aviation fuel detonation that blew her bow off. She would sink 70 minutes later about 430nm west of Cape Finisterre in Galicia, Spain. 73 of her crew would die, with the remaining crew (which included Eric “Winkle” Brown) being picked up by the Flower class corvettes Convolvulus, Marigold, and Pentstemon. After this, the Admiralty would prohibit ships from operating outside a convoy as it was too risky. In a funny bit of mistaken identity post-sinking, U-751’s captain had mistaken Audacity for an Illustrious class aircraft carrier and was announced by Nazi propaganda sources as such.

Description: Audacity is a woman of average height, coming in around the same height as the County class sisters. She has fair skin and ultramarine eyes. She’s got medium length dusty blonde hair that goes down to her upper back and is tied up in a ponytail. She has a modest build. Her chest size is equivalent to a D cup, an average waist, an average butt, average hips, and average thighs. Her outfit is a dark blue Royal Navy officer’s uniform over a red dress shirt, a black bra, a white skirt, a pair of black panties, black thigh-high stockings, and dark brown high-heel boots.

Personality: She has grown to like the culture of the Royal Navy, but misses her homeland with the girls of Iron Blood. Is a rough and tumble girl, willing to go out on her own even if it was too risky. When not in combat, she can be found in the base’s large garden and caring for some banana plants. She can speak in both English and German.

Rigging: Her rigging consists of two armatures, one on each side. Each one has a part of her flight deck on it, including the bow & stern sections on them. These flight decks are also carrying two of her Martlets on them. Two secondary armatures coming from the origin point on her back that houses her main guns & AA battery on it. Which consists of a single 4 inch gun and a single 6-pounder gun, plus four single 40mm Pom-Pom guns and four single 20mm Oerlikons. Also on the origin point on her back, which is off-set slightly, is the ship’s mast. The remaining two Martlets of her operational air wing can be seen flying around her.

I have been a fan of T.M.Revolution aka Takanori Nishikawa since 2010 and I've only now discovered he did a song for this game? This guy seriously keeps surprising me with how many times he turns up in franchises I'm into.

Four to six months ago, I made a post praising Valparaíso around Dev 17/18 because her self-sustain looked promising on paper. Now that I finally finished the blueprint grind to Dev 30 and tested her in World 16-4, the reality is a massive letdown. She plays identically to how she did at Dev 18. Nobody could have predicted how severely powerhouses like Max Immelmann and Götz von Berlichingen would warp the DPS meta, yet their arrival completely exposed Valparaíso's identity crisis. When your carries already output monstrous damage, the remaining backline slot needs to either bring top-tier utility or keep pace in raw damage. Valparaíso does neither.

To rule out bad RNG, I ran a direct comparison in 16-4 using the exact same setup: Max Immelmann and Fritz Rumey anchoring the main fleet alongside either Valparaíso or Raffaello, backed by a defensive vanguard of Shimanto, Takahashi, and Eldridge. With Eldridge granting 10 seconds of frontline immunity every 20 seconds (give or take), and Shimanto and Takahashi covering heals, AA, and slows, the vanguard already has elite survival tools. They just need a third main-fleet ship that can help weather the storm or end the fight faster.

As a support, Valparaíso is purely selfish. Firing her secondary guns 20 times triggers a 3% Max HP self-heal, turning her into an unkillable cockroach in the backline. Unlike Musashi, who sits in the permanent pool and actively absorbs damage for your Main Fleet as long as she stays above 50% HP, Valparaíso offers zero damage redirection. Pairing her with a dedicated primary healer makes no tactical sense either, since you sacrifice a carry slot and tank your overall DPS without gaining any real protection in return.

Her actual team healing is gated behind mechanics that fail in modern high-difficulty maps. Her 8% heal to the lowest-HP ship only triggers every two activations of her secondary skill, requiring 40 volleys for a single trickle of sustain. Worse still, her yellow skill (Crystalline Hearth of Homecoming) only activates after 30 secondary shots or 20 seconds into the fight, extending her secondary range to a measly 105. Because her base range cannot reach enemy battleships spawning at the back edge of the map, she rarely stacks those shots early. You are effectively forced to wait 20 seconds for her kit to wake up, by which point your vanguard has already eaten the worst of the initial wave pressure. Even after the buff kicks in, a 105 range is laughable compared to the 150–200 range needed to pressure distant threats.

Since she fails as a support, she needs to justify her Decisive rarity through raw damage, and falls short there too. Having 140% Main Gun efficiency across three mounts at Dev 30 (compared to Raffaello's 150%) alongside a random-targeting barrage puts a hard ceiling on her output. Against the 16-4 boss, both setups topped out at the exact same best clear time of 2:08 remaining on the timer, meaning there is zero DPS gain to justify the DR blueprint sink. The real kicker happened during my third test run with Raffaello, when her holistic sustain kept the entire squad alive to clear the 16-4 boss completely out of ammo under the 50% damage penalty. Valparaíso couldn't even keep the frontline standing with full ammo.

Valparaíso tries to straddle the line between DPS and support and ends up accomplishing neither. Has anyone else pushed her to Dev 30 only to watch their vanguard collapse while she sits comfortably at full health?

Hi, i don’t know what flair to use. Its just my version and design. If you can help me or correct the flair will be nice.

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